Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Illicit fentanyl is closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic. Two milligrams, an almost undetectable trace amount equivalent to 10 to 15 grains of table salt, ...

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DEFENDING AMERICA FROM A CHEMICAL WEAPON: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order designating illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemical as weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - More than 200 former employees of the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday criticized what they called the ongoing "destruction" of its Civil Rights Division, saying ...

President Donald Trump signed a new executive order Monday that classifies fentanyl as a "weapon of mass destruction." The president made the announcement ahead of a medal pinning for military members ...

In the past, physicist Stephen Hawking has hosted a champagne party for time travelers with balloons and hors d’oeuvres. However, the scientist only revealed this after the party and made sure only ...

Quantum physics is the study of matter and energy at its most fundamental level. A central tenet of quantum physics is that energy comes in indivisible packets called quanta. Quanta behave very ...

Applied physics is the study of physics for a practical purpose, as opposed to physics motived solely for an improved fundamental understanding. This includes technological advances such as the ...

President Trump on Monday signed an executive order designating the street drug fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction. "The manufacture and distribution of fentanyl, primarily performed by organized ...

Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to disprove the quantum mechanical principle of complementarity put forth by ...